Michèle Crider

Michèle Crider is one of today’s preeminent dramatic sopranos of her generation. She has been making her mark on both the operatic and concert stages of the world in a remarkably wide repertoire. Miss Crider studied voice at the University of Iowa. She won the District Metropolitan Opera Auditions twice. Afterwards she left Iowa and went to Zurich where she continued her studies at the studio of the Zurich Opera House. She was the finalist of the Luciano Pavarotti competition and won one of the three first prizes at the Geneva International Music Competition. This prize directly led to her engagement as Leonora in Il Trovatore in Dortmund and to her participation in the International Grand Prix, which she then won. Miss Crider has been heard regularly in the world’s great opera houses, i